ZeroStack Adds Machine Learning to Its 'Hands-Off' Cloud

With 18 months of managed cloud services under its belt, ZeroStack says it's ready to start feeding what it's learned into machine learning algorithms, aiming to further automate the private cloud. The goal is to let application developers run jobs without worrying about things like storage capacity or the optimal placement of applications, says Steve Garrison, the startup's vice president of marketing. "A lot of people are wanting to refrain from managing anything on-premises any more. This is why public cloud is taking off," Garrison says. What ZeroStack offers is infrastructure that can be consumed as if it were a public cloud, but that remains under control of the enterprise -- a "neutral hybrid" alternative for work that the enterprise would prefer to keep closer to home, he says.